Crime in tranquil village [Archives:2002/35/Local News]

By Mohammed Bin Sallam
Yemen Times Staff
Unidentified gunmen had on Friday before last attacked Hamadan village, 10km to the North-west of Sana’a. The attackers used hand grenades and guns which resulted in killing murdering of a 2-year baby and caused damage to a number of cars belonging to the tribe’s chief of Headman shattering windows of nearby houses.
Security forces in the region had arrested one of the suspects who had confessed of participating in the attack with some other persons who were known later by the authorities but are still at large. Yemen Times met with many tribal leaders, one of them Fuad Saleh Al Faqih, father of the murdered baby ( Naïf) who said” The criminals have killed my child with a shot in his head while sleeping in his mother’s lap at 3 a.m. We do not expect that a Muslim can do such immoral crime which caused terror and anger among people specially at this hour of the day.”
The head of the tribe, Sheikh Saleh al Faqih, grandfather of the killed baby said ” We have recently come across some controversial issues about water supply, and these conflicts developed to a political dispute” . In regards to this crime, he said ” We know the man behind this crime, a trouble-maker, who always benefits of having a parliamentary immunity to provoke problems between people”. The sheikh continued ” The first suspect of the attack (A.H.M) has confessed at the criminal investigations that Sheikh (N) is the person who incited him to attack the village although we belong to the same party and family”Mr. Mohammed Abdullah Al Faquih, a citizen said that one of his sons (Abdullateef) was killed last year in a dispute over the border of their tribe and armored camp incited by the same person, sheikh (N)”.
In the absence of the morals and good values, the tribal laws and traditions are no longer respected by tribesmen, leading to revenge acts and violations. The tribesman, in the past, was of a good morals which cannot be found in big civilized cities. He used to live safely, even in time of war there were some traditions which no one could leave behind. What happened in Hamadan is distorting the tribal image and paving the way for more revenge acts as the father of the murdered child will not keep hand folded if the authorities did not act to put and end for such crimes.
 


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